10th JUNE 2024 ENGLISH TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS PDF TNPSC SHOUTERS
Modi's first signature as Prime Minister for the third term
- While the National Democratic Alliance led by the BJP has won the Lok Sabha elections, Modi, who has been elected as the Prime Minister for the third time, has signed a file from today to release Rs.
- Prime Minister Modi, who formally took oath at his office in Delhi today, signed a document to release the 17th installment under the Prime Minister's Farmers' Fund Scheme.
- The first Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was held in Delhi today after taking office as the Prime Minister of the country for the 3rd term.
- The first cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today (June 10) gave approval to provide additional funds for the scheme to build houses for the rural and urban poor.
- As the number of eligible families has increased, an additional 3 crore houses are planned to be constructed under the Pradham Mantri Awas Yojana.
- Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Jaishankar and others participated in this meeting. Ministers from the coalition parties also participated in the meeting.
- Pradham Mantri Awas Yojana has been implemented since 2015-16 to help poor people in rural and urban areas to build houses.
- In the last 10 years, 4.21 crore houses have been constructed under the central government's allocation of funds for eligible people. These houses are built with basic facilities like toilet, gas (LPG) connection, electricity connection, drinking water facility etc.
- Now that the Cabinet has given its approval, 3 crore more houses will be constructed under this scheme.
- The swearing-in ceremony of Chief Minister Tamang and the new ministers in his cabinet was held at Paljor Maidan. Tamang, 56, has been sworn in as the Chief Minister of Sikkim for the second consecutive term.
- In Sikkim, assembly polls were held simultaneously with Lok Sabha polls on April 19. The votes cast in a total of 32 assembly constituencies were counted on June 2 and the results announced. The ruling SKM party won a landslide victory by capturing 31 seats.
- He won his third Grand Slam title by defeating Germany's Alex Zverev in Sunday's final. After trailing 6-3, 2-6, 5-7 at the end of three rounds of that final, he won the last two sets easily 6-1, 6-2.
- This was Carlos Algarez's third Grand Slam title. He won the US Open for the first time in 2022 and won the Wimbledon final last year after defeating Novak Djokovic.
- With this, Algares has achieved the record of being the youngest player to win the title of champion in all three types of surfaces (hard court, turf, clay). And he has now moved up to the second spot in the men's singles rankings. Italy's Yannick Sinner is number one.
